I hope we respond by putting tariffs on American pickups. Democratic nations need to cut the US out of the global economy entirely until they learn how to act right.
Apologies if there’s any weirdness in this post, it’s my first one.
I hope we respond by putting tariffs on American pickups. Democratic nations need to cut the US out of the global economy entirely until they learn how to act right.
Apologies if there’s any weirdness in this post, it’s my first one.
I think we can all do something. I know our economy is tiny, but Australia buys way more from the US than they buy from us… and you know what a big chunk of that is? Services. Some of those are hard to shift but others are easier.
I’ve hosted all my websites and registered all my domains in the US for over 20 years.
That changed yesterday and I’m transferring everything over to Australia.
For Fedi, look at Australian servers where you can. Subscriptions? Fuck off Netflix et al. Get out of Google as much as you can. If you’re here you are probably already out of FB and Reddit, but leave anything else you can that is US based and try to support AU or EU.
Don’t buy US foods, cars, or technology where possible (let’s face it, most of those are crap anyway).
And you know what, most of the US based internet is shit now too. It was fun 20 years ago, but consistent enshittification has been the worst in the US. At least the EU is trying to fight it.
Yes our economy is tiny, but we can change more than you might think, and as the rest of the world probably will do similar, the US won’t be quite as well off as it thinks it is.
A lot of US brands are just relabeled Chinese stuff with a markup. They get us badly on financial, services and IP. I am down to one streaming service and I only have one US based hosting service left which I will be moving to Australian owned hosting soon. My PCs run open source except for games. I will probably keep buying Steam games but it isn’t realistic to totally cut out US business. Things like PayPal and Netflix are easy to do without.
Canadian here. This is exactky what we are doing. Everything we can not to support anything “America”. Welcome to the fuck them club.
As an American, this is wacky to read–but I’m fully in support. What can i say, i think there’s some good ones here but not enough to balance out all the shite ones ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
It was a good run, i guess? Lol
I’m sorry for the good ones, but the current actions are a huge threat to democracy worldwide, and while I think the puppet masters expect this response and globalisation is already in the process of collapsing (read The End of the World Is just the Beginning - Mapping the Collapse of Globalisation by Peter Zeihan) we can try and avoid this fate elsewhere. It is NOT inevitable that the tech bros rule us all as serfs, but getting away from Big Tech, means cutting off the US out of our digital lives as much as we can.
Everyone here is ahead of the game 👍
Sorry for the good ones but we have to start thinking about ourselves now more than ever.
Agreed! It’s a shame it’s come to this, but i don’t blame anyone for doing what’s in their best interests in response to this. Clearly trump and leon are doing everything for their own be$t interests
Never been on Facebook, just got a lifetime ban from Reddit for being mean to magats. 🤣
I got one over the weekend for making an off the cuff joke about punching members of a hate group for ‘inciting violence’. Context and nuance is too hard for them, I guess. I spent too much time there anyway. Happily deleted my entire account, as I have also done for Facebook. This place seems ok, if a little underpopulated right now.
Haha, I’m just operating under the assumption that we’re all Reddit rejects and this place is likely to get quite a bit busier in the near future. 🤣
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